CHAOS MANOR MUSINGS - The View from Chaos Manor

Jerry Pournelle, PhD

The Original Blog

New View/Mail location is www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/ (starting 25 June 2011). Please update your bookmarks (there's a nice link to do that on the right side of the new pages).

Here are links to Mail and View prior to that date (links open in new window).

This is my personal journal and day book. Subjects
include civilization and technology, strategy, climate, energy policy, space
access, and other issues that
interest me. In general this site assumes
interest in rational discussion of technology and civilization.

The
Mail section is very wide ranging and one of the best on the Internet.

The View section contains extensive discussions on those subjects, often with contributions by some very smart people.

For computer
related reviews and mail, see Chaos Manor Reviews, which is a continuation of the old BYTE column I
began in 1980 with BYTE Magazine.

Most of the action is in
View and
Mail. You
should scroll way down to see what else is here.

How to
Search This Web Site

The best way is to use your favorite search engine. Add this to the end of your search: 'site:jerrypournelle.com' (without the quotes). The new Chaos Manor blog area has it's own search function on the right side that will search only the blog posts. For a comprehensive search, use your favorite search engine.

What this place is about: Jerry Pournelle's Web Site, including Chaos Manor
Mail. Accept no
Substitutes. This page is generally updated daily. Most of the action here is in The View from Chaos Manor, and Chaos Manor Mail. Many of my observations are given as
comments on Mail. View is mostly my comments and
mini-essays on many topics. One
popular permanent item is HOW TO GET MY JOB.

[Original Blog] I can make some claim to this
being The Original Blog and Daybook. I certainly started keeping a day
book well before most, and long before the term "blog" or Web
Log was invented. BIX, the Byte information exchange, preceded the Web by a lot, and
I also had a daily journal on GE Genie. Both of those would have been
considered blogs if there had been any such term. All that was long before the
World Wide Web.

I note that a Google Search on Blog doesn't show me, at
least not in the first 10 or so pages, but then I long insisted I don't
"blog" because I find the word ugly. But I have a fair amount of
traffic and a quality readership, so I can hardly complain. This site is
supported by subscribers on the "Public Radio" model: if you think it is
worthwhile, please subscribe.

This Web Site supplements my column that ran
in the print version of BYTE for twenty
years and continues at Chaos Manor Reviews.
This web page adds more, including
mail to both me and the column. You'll find: Computers, Blogs, Blogging, Operating systems,
Linux, Features,
Journals, Day Books, Mail, Discussions, Current Topics, Science Fact and Fiction, Space
Policy, Defense Policy, Population Density, Global Warming, History,
Republic or Empire?, and Other Stuff I think is interesting. It is mostly text. The main action here is in VIEW and MAIL which are updated more or less
daily. There is also my work in progress. If you have not the foggiest notion
of what you've found, click here.

NOTE: Mail sent to me not intended for
publication should be clearly marked as such.

If you got here looking for the MegaMissions
paper, click here. I find that my space papers are not well organized
or indexed and are very hard to find. I'll try to do something about that.
The other paper referenced in my recent talk is Getting
to Space.

This is a content oriented site. You are not likely to find
pretty new graphics here. This is not a course on web design. I do try to make things
readable, and keep the download times small. Topics include: New machines, chip reports,
book and game reviews, musings on many matters. The View
From Chaos Manor is updated almost every day. There is a great deal of mail, on many topics. If you don't know why you're here, try VIEW, then "What Is This
Place?" It can be confusing here, but many like it
that way. Reminds them of The Adventure Game.

WARNING: this place is updated frequently. RELOAD/REFRESH early and often. Good Luck.

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